The Encyclopedia of Doris: Stories, Essays, & Interviews

By Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb

Book Overview

An anthology of the feminist, personal zine Doris: issues 19-27, plus new writing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983125511
• ISBN13: 9780983125518
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Doris Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Powerful stories of a most uncommon life

This collection of zines (the zine is called "Doris"), arranged alphabetically by subject, tells of Cindy Crabb's life over a decade or more. For me, the most interesting and moving stories were about the abuse she received, her dabbling in an anarchist and punk lifestyle, and more or less drifting while avoiding "getting a job." Women who are well up on feminist issues may not find that much of interest; I, being male, found much of serious value despite much other feminist reading. I've read this twice and given it to two friends to read. The male friend liked it a lot; the female friend said it bored her. This book is in a class that I call "blood on the page": intensely personal stories from serious writers. I have to say, however, that the formatting, printing, and so on, suffer greatly compared to most books, but much is gained from the included cartoons in the margins, which are mostly decorative, though primitive. The reprint edition, "Things that Help," is a bit inferior in quality and the page numbering in the Table of Contents is off by 4.